This author wrote about a figure like a "proudly swaying palm" in a place where "applauding youths laughed with young prostit
This author wrote about a figure like a "proudly swaying palm" in a place where "applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes." He also described a "stern harsh world" which has pushed the "timid little feet of clay," and that poem repeats the phrase "Through the long night." Another poem in that collection by this man describes how "we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!" This author forayed into the novel form with a long work in which Malcolm and Priscilla Craig adopt the protagonist from the title locale. Another of his works follows a (*) World War I veteran who once loved Congo Rose and takes the prostitute Felice with him to Chicago. For 10 points, name this author of "If We Must Die" found in his Harlem Shadows who created the characters of Bita Plant and Jake Brown in Banana Bottom and Home to Harlem.  [Shantanu]
This author wrote about a figure like a "proudly swaying palm" in a place where "applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes."
{Claude McKay}